With the Windows 10 October 2018 update release, Microsoft had quietly added a built-in command-line network packet sniffer called Pktmon to Windows 10. Since then, Microsoft has added a few more ...

A packet monitor, or network sniffer, is a program that lets you monitor the network traffic flowing over a computer's network devices down to the individual packet level. When Pktmon was first ...

I have often wondered why manufacturers of Ethernet switches severely restrict the number of SPAN/port-monitoring sessions they allow to be configured. I can only assume that they are limited because ...

LiveAction today said that it will acquire software provider Savvius, which provides packet-capture and analytics appliances and forensic software for network monitoring. Terms of the deal were not ...

NetQuest, a manufacturer of test and monitoring access solutions, has launched its E-Series OptiCop 10G Converger, Monitoring Access Optimizer for Ethernet packet networks. Using the company’s hybrid ...

Barefoot Networks today announced Barefoot Deep Insight. The company says it’s a network monitoring system that gives visibility into every packet in a network. Deep Insight leverages Barefoot’s ...

Real time performance management, a must-have technology for converged networks, is only now finding its way into enterprise-level companies, but it is already becoming well-established in the SMB ...